God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must humble yourselves and present a gift to the Lord.

“‘On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a holy assembly. You must not do your ordinary work, for it is a day of blowing trumpets for you.

so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.

So the victory of that day was turned to mourning as far as all the people were concerned. For the people heard on that day, “The king is grieved over his son.”

“For seven days you will provide every day a goat for a sin offering; a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, will be provided.

Twelve thousand men and women died that day, including all the men of Ai.

In those days, as King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa the citadel,

Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.

“Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial.

Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there).

If she bears a female child, she will be impure fourteen days as during her menstrual flow, and she will remain sixty-six days in blood purity.

“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work, and you must keep a festival to the Lord for seven days.

After Festus had stayed not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day he sat on the judgment seat and ordered Paul to be brought.

For he says, “I heard you at the acceptable time, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Look, now is the acceptable time; look, now is the day of salvation!

All day long he shows compassion and lends to others, and his children are blessed.

You came near on the day I called to you; you said, “Do not fear!”

So Peter stayed many days in Joppa with a man named Simon, a tanner.

And on the first day there is to be a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.